A recently published study determined mortality rates of patients treated with hemodialysis were different for racial and ethnic groups based on whether patients received care in U.S. states or territories. “While there have been extensive analyses of [chronic kidney disease] and ESKD in the 50 U.S. states, there are few studies about kidney disease in the U.S. territories,” Guofen Yan, of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote. “The U.S. has five territories that are permanently inhabited and comprised of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Vi...
Novo Nordisk has joined with the University of Virginia in a five-year research collaboration where they will work together on developing virtual environments focused on digital simulations of patients with type 2 diabetes.
(Video) It's time to look ahead at what next year's General Assembly session will look like. On Thursday, a few members of the UVA Board of Visitors, two state senators and 57th District Del.-elect Sally Hudson held a town hall in the Rotunda.
A Charlottesville woman is celebrating the first anniversary of her kidney transplant at the UVA Medical Center by giving back to the hospital that helped save her life. Jess Davis volunteers at UVA Health, and is working to set up a peer-support group for all transplant patients.
Three Central Virginia legislators met with constituents at UVA’s Rotunda on Thursday to outline the initiatives they plan to tackle in the upcoming General Assembly session.
On Thursday, the Jefferson Area Regional Transit Partnership recommended that Albemarle County, UVA and Charlottesville allocate funding for Afton Express, which would make four trips a day between Staunton and Charlottesville and have a $3 fare.
Krystal Ball was once an MSNBC star. Now she’s one of the few mainstream media figures who gets why Bernie Sanders matters and why liberal professionals shouldn’t be allowed to dominate progressive politics. She grew up in King George County, Virginia, where she still lives, commuting an hour and a half to work. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics, she moved to East Liverpool, Ohio, once known as “the pottery capital of the world,” a time Ball calls “most influential for me, politically.”
“No matter if you are exonerated in the Senate, or at the very least you’re acquitted and not removed, the first paragraph of your obituary will say the word ‘impeachment.’ So it will change his place in history,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “There will always be a black mark on his presidency.”
Although anger surrounding impeachment has animated voters in both parties, it’s not yet clear that it will be the central issue when they cast ballots next November in an election to decide control of the White House and Congress. “Things move so fast we can’t just assume that things that seem very important now are going to matter later," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Chrystal Ball website at UVA’s Center for Politics, said last week.
A second wave of flu likely is coming later in the season, this one with the Influenza A virus, according to researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, who are working in a research partnership with AccuWeather. “I suspect that A will start picking up at the end of December,” said Dr. Bryan Lewis with the University of Virginia.
Women car passengers are roughly 73% more likely to be seriously injured in frontal car crashes than men, University of Virginia researchers found. The statistic was highlighted by Caroline Criado Perez in her book, “Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.”
Two area nonprofits and several kids will be getting an early gift Friday, thanks to former UVA and NFL football player Chris Long and author Brian Calhoun.
If Bronco Mendenhall doesn’t like you, you won’t play football at the University of Virginia. That’s what Virginia’s head coach told the media when discussing his recruiting philosophy and the players he officially signed to his 2020 recruiting class Wednesday.
The UVA Medical Center has been honored as one of the 55 Top Teaching Hospitals by the national organization The Leapfrog Group, based upon its patient safety and quality.
"McConnell is a master at navigating the legislative process, and the manner in which he is willing to use legislative procedure to achieve his outcomes is quite remarkable," Jennifer Lawless, professor of political science at the University of Virginia, said. The impeachment stakes are relatively low for McConnell as his chief mission is to keep the White House happy, according to Lawless.
The 2019-20 flu season continues to be more active than normal, with Influenza B the leading type of virus among patients nationwide. But patient visits were down compared to the previous week in much of the country, indicating the early Influenza B wave may reach a peak and start declining in the coming weeks, according to researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather.
Some have drawn parallels between the current impeachment proceedings and those against Richard Nixon, who faced similar articles, but resigned from office before the House could vote on them. “In 1974, Republicans called the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt, a kangaroo court and a lynch mob,” said historian Ken Hughes of UVA’s nonpartisan Miller Center. “In terms of political rhetoric, 2019 is like a photocopy of 1974.”
“[Andrew Johnson] utterly failed to make a satisfying and just peace because of his racist views, his gross incompetence in federal office, and his incredible miscalculation of public support for his policies,” UVA history professor Elizabeth Varon wrote.
In February, Dr. Serwa Ertl, a UVA assistant professor of pediatrics, noticed Charlottesville needed a resource to aid victims of sex trafficking, so she founded the Charlottesville Albemarle Human Trafficking Task Force.